Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 94528
Memory Leak in soffice.bin
Last modified: 2010-07-01 12:36:51 UTC
I have noticed the following behavior with OpenOffice 3 RC3 that may indicate a memory leak. On logon, the OpenOffice Quickstarter program starts. It appears to start 2 processes, soffice.bin and soffice.exe. On my system at logon to my user profile, soffice.bin uses 18,272K of memory and soffice.exe uses 9,060K of memory. After I start OpenOffice Writer and then close it, soffice.bin does not release all of its used memory. It continues to use 43,232K. Next, if I open OpenOffice Calc and then close it, soffice.bin continues to use even more memory: 53,312K. Next, if I open OpenOffice Draw and then close it, soffice.bin continues to use even more memory: 62,536K. This pattern of additional memory usage continues each time I open up an OpenOffice application and then close it. Even after the machine sits idle, with only the quickstarter program running in the task bar, the memory allocation of soffice.bin continues and the additional memory stays allocated to the process. I am able to consistently reproduce this behavior. I made my observations using the processes tab of the Windows Task Manager.
I am noticing the same memory consumption problem in OpenOffice 3.0 Release to Production version.
today I opened a word document. and did nothing with it. a few hours later my laptop started running slow. I checked the processes and office.bin was user 1.1gb of RAM. This isn't the first time I have found office.bin to be using several hundred MB but is the first time it was over 1gb. Seems obvious there is a problem with one of the extensions or the application. My extensions: French, English & Spanish spelling and thesaurus and the PDF Import extension. FYI: No wonder C# is what everyone is migrating to. Memory leaks seem to be a problem with 9 out of 10 Java based programs I've encountered. I've even seen them in enterprise applications written by well known companies like IBM. I am sure the root cause is poorly written code however, it is so bad that memory management needs to be included into the Java environment or Java will go the way of Cobol.
i have problems as well, when openoffice is running I can see from the task manager it is requiring alot of processing/memory. once i close the application the soffice.bin continues to take 20-50% processing/memory. if i stop the soffice.bin process then i have problems with firefox. so i need to restart my cpu. is openoffice replying to these comments at all or are we left alone with this?
Disabling Java, even completely uninstalling a JRE, seems to have no impact on the memory leak. It still appears, which seems to indicate a problem with a core component.
This problem seems to be associated with the Quickstarter toolbar app. The unusual processor and memory demands cease when I exit it, and I do not have any processor or memory issues when I leave it disabled, that is, I do not load it during system start-up. The toolbar Quickstarter is nice, but I can survive without it for a while. Environment: (if this helps...) OOo 3.0.1 installed on Windows Vista (the premium home flavor w/ latest updates) running on an AMD Athlon X2
Please try the upcoming OOo 3.1.1 . The related developer snapshot is OOO310_m17. We've had some fixes in the Quickstarter area.
No further answers indicate that the issue is fixed.